英国文学复习资料
British Writers and Works
I. Old English Literature & The Late Medieval Ages
Epic:long narrative poems that record the adventures or heroic deeds of a hero en acted in vast landscapes. The style of epic is grand and elevated.
e.g. Homer?s Iliad and Odyssey
Artistic features:
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/e012748088.html,ing alliteration
Definition of alliteration: a rhetorical device, meaning some words in
a sentence begin with the same consonant sound（头韵）
Some examples on P5
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/e012748088.html,ing metaphor and understatement
Definition of understatement: expressing something in a controlled way
Understatement is a typical way for Englishmen to express their idea
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Geoffery Chaucer 杰弗里?乔叟1340(?)~1400
(首创“双韵体”，英国文学史上首先用伦敦方言写作。约翰·德莱顿（John Dryden）称其为“英国诗歌之父”。代表作《坎特伯雷故事集》。)
The father of English poetry.
writing style:wisdom, humor, humanity.
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first time to use …heroic couplet?(双韵体) by middle English
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Medieval Ages’ popular Literary form:Romance(传奇故事)
Famous three：King Arthur
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Beowulf
II The Renaissance Period
A period of drama and poetry. The Elizabethan drama is the real mainstream
of the English Renaissance.
Renaissance: the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17t
h century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
Three historical events of the Renaissance –rebirth or revival:
1.new discoveries in geography and astrology
2.the religious reformation and economic expansion
3.rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture
The most famous dramatists:
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Ben Johnson.
1.Edmund Spenser埃德蒙?斯宾塞1552~1599
（后人称之为“诗人的诗人”。）The poets? poet.The first to be buried in the
more romantic “Fierce wars and faithfull lov es”.
Artistic features:
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/e012748088.html,ing Spenserian Stanza
Definition of Spenserian Stanza:a stanza of nine lines ababbcbcc. Ei ght lines in iambic pentameter, and last line in iambic hexamete
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The theme is to lament over the loss of Rosalind.
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2. ThomasλMore托马斯?莫尔1478~1535
One of the greatest English humanists
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3. FrancisλBacon弗兰西斯?培根1561~1626
（哲学家、散文家；在论述探究知识的著作中提出了知识就是力量这一著名论断；近代唯物主义哲学的奠基人和近代实验科学的先驱。）
Philosopher, scientist, lay the foundation for modern science. The first Englis h essayist.ν
Writing style:brevity, compactness&powerfulness, well-arranging and enriching by Biblical allusions, metaphors and philosophy to man?s reason.
study and different ways a
dopted by different people to pursue studies.
4. Ben Jonson
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5. ChristopherλMarlowe柯里斯托弗?马洛1564~1595
“University Wits”, the pioneer of English drama
（完善了无韵体诗。）
Blank verse:written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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6. William Shakespeare威廉?莎士比亚1564~1616λ
①Historical plays:Henry VI ; Henry IV : Richard III ; Henry V ；Richar
d II；Henry VIII
②Four Comedies:
仲夏夜之梦; Venice>威尼斯商人 ③Four Tragedies: 王; ④Shakespeare Sonnet :154 Three quatrain and one couplet, ababcdcdefefgg A sonnet is a lyric consisting of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter restr icted to a definition rhyme scheme. IIIThe 17th Century 1. John Milton约翰?弥尔顿1608~1674 （诗人、政论家;失明后写《失乐园》、《复乐园》、《力士参孙》。） ①Epics: ②Dramatic poem: < Samson Agonistes>力士参孙 ③ ④ This sonnet is written in iambic pentameter rhymed in abba abba cde cd e, typical of Italian sonnet. Its theme is that people use their talent for God, and they serve him bes t sho can endure the suffering best. 2. John Bunyan约翰?班扬1628~1688 （代表作《天路历程》，宗教寓言，被誉为“具有永恒意义的百科全书”，是英国文学史上里程碑式著作。与但丁的《神曲》、奥古斯丁的《忏悔录》并列为世界三大宗教题材文学杰作。） Puritan poet(清教徒派诗人) ①ReligionaryAllegory: 3. John Donne the Metaphysical poet(玄学派诗人). Metaphysical Poetry(玄学诗)：（用语）the diction is simple, the imagery is fro m the actual, (形式)the form is frequently an argument with the poet’s belove d, with god, or with himself.（主题：love, religious, thought） Artistic features: 1.conceits or imagery奇思妙喻 2.syllogism三段论 ①Meditations 沉思录 The Flea 虱子 ②Songs And Sonnets IV The A revival of interest in the old classical works, order, logic, restrained emotion(抑制情感) and accuracy The Age of Enlightenment/Reason:the movement was a furtherance of the Renai ssance of the 15th and 16th centries, a progressive intellectual movement, reason(ratio nality), equality&science(the 18th century) 小说崛起：In the mid-century, the newly literary form, modern English novel rised(realistic novel现实主义小说) Gothic novel(哥特式小说)：mystery, horror, castles(from middle part to the end o f century) 1. AlexanderλPope亚历山大?蒲柏1688~1744 （18世纪英国最伟大的诗人，其诗多用“英雄双韵体”/ “ heroic couplets”。词句工整、精练、富有哲理性。） One of the first to introduce rationalism to England. ① Artistic features: https://www.wendangku.net/doc/e012748088.html,ing “heroic couplets” ② ③ 2. SamuelλJohnson塞缪尔?约翰逊1709~1784 ①Dictionary =英语大词典ν 3.Jonathan Swift乔纳森?斯威夫特1667~1745 （十八世纪杰出的政论家和讽刺小说家a master satirist。） ① Four parts: Lilliput小人国 Brobdingnag大人国 Flying Island飞岛 Houyhnhnm马岛 ② ④ 4.Daniel Defoe丹尼尔?笛福1660~1731 （小说家，新闻记者，小册子作者；十八世纪英国现实主义小说的奠基人。）λ He is the first writer study of the lower-class people,hislanguage is smo oth, easy, colloquial and mostly vernacular, and he is the founder of realistic novel. ① It praise the fortitude of the human labor and the Puritan. Robinson grew from a naive and artless youth into a shrewd and har dened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life. It is an adventure story, Robinson, narrates how he goes to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned on a lonely island, struggles to live for 24-years there and finally gets relieved and returns to Englan d. ② ③ ④ 5. Henry Fielding亨利?菲尔丁1707~1754 （英国小说家，戏剧家，被誉为“英国小说之父”。） He is called “Father of English novel”. He was the first to write a “Com ic epic in prose”(散文体史诗), and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. ①novels: ②plays: 6.Oliver Goldsmith奥利弗?格尔德斯密斯1730~1774 ①poems: ②novel: 7. Richard Brinsley Sheridan理查德?布林斯利?施莱登1751~1816 ① ② 8. William Blake威廉?布莱克1757~1827 ① A happy and innocent world from children?s eye. ② A word of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melanchol y tone from men eyes. Include: and purity Tyger is a symbol of dread and oiolence ③ 9. Robert Burns罗伯特?彭斯1759~1796 The greatest Scottish poet in the late 18th century. Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect主要用苏格兰方言写的诗 ③ ④ 不管那一套ν ⑤ ⑥ ⑦ V The Romantic Period The romantic period began in 1798 the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge?s Romanticism:It emphasize the specialqualitie of each individual?s mind.(人应该是独立自由的个体) In it, emotion over reason, spontaneous emotion, a change from the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of the human spirit, poetry should be free from all rules, imagination, nature, commonplace. Two major novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen (realistic) and Walter Scott (romantic). “The Lake Poets”湖畔诗人，who lived in the lake district. William Wordsworth;Samuel Taylor Coleridge;Robert Southey 1.William Wordsworth威廉?华兹华斯1770~1850 （与柯尔律治、骚塞同被称为“湖畔派”诗人。The Lake Poets） ① ② Theme:1.Nature embodies human beings in their diverse circumstance. It is nature that give him “strength and knowledge fullof peace” 2.It is bliss to recolled the beauty of nature in poet mind while he is in solitude. Comment:The poet is very cheerful with recalling the beautiful sights. In the poem on the beauty of nature, the reader is presented a vivid picture of lively and lovely daffodils(水仙) and poet?s philosophical ideas and mystical thought s. ③Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey ④The Solitary Reaper孤独的割麦女 ② 2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge塞缪尔?泰勒?科尔律治1772~1834 The Lake Poets ① ② ③ Artistic features: mysticism, demonism with strong imagination,a strange territory ④ ⑤ ⑥ 3. George Gordon Byron乔治?戈登?拜伦1788~1824 （拜伦式英雄Byronic heroes孤傲、狂热、浪漫，却充满了反抗精神。内心充满了孤独与苦闷，却又蔑视群小。恰尔德·哈罗德是拜伦诗歌中第一个“拜伦式英雄”。） “Byronic hero” is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin, against tyrannical rules or moral principles. ① ② 4. Persy Bysshe Shelley波西?比希?雪莱1792~1822 ①Poetic Drama： Theme: the drama celebraies man?s victory over tyranny and oppression ② ③Lyrics: Theme: The author express his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality. Compare the west wind to destroyer of the old who drives the last signs of life from the trees, and preserver of the new who scatter the seads shich sill come to life in the spring. This is a poem about renewal, about the wind blowing life back into dead things, implying not just an arc of life (which would end at death) but a cycle, which only starts again when something dies. Comment: Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" is written in iambic pentameter. It contains five sonnet length stanzas, each with a closing couplet. The rhyming scheme form is aba bcb cdc ded ee. The tone is poignant. Many will agree that this poem is an invocation for an unseen force to take control and revive life. Artistic features: Using rerza rima(三行诗aba bcb cdc ded efe …) 5. Johnλ Keats约翰?济慈1795~1821 (“美即是真，真即是美”是他的著名诗句。) ①Four great odes: ② Theme: The theme of John Keats' poem, "To Autumn", is that change is both natural and beautiful. The poem praises the glories of the fall season by using almost every type of imagery to both charm and appeal to the reader. Comment: The speaker in the poem acknowledges that time passes by, but also asserts that this change usually yields something new and better than what came before. Each of the poem's three stanzas represents the evolving of two different types of change. One type of change shown in the poem is the change of periods in a day. 6. Jane Austen简?奥斯丁1775~1817λ She compared her works to a fine engraving upon a literary piece of ivory only inches squire. ① 【Elizabeth Bennet & Darcy】in the end false pride is humbled and prejudice dissolved 【Collins & Charlotte Lucas】see the reality of marriage as a necessary step if a woman is to avoid the wretchedness of aging spinsterhood 【Lydia & Wickham】shown the dangers of feckless relationships unsupported by money. 【Mr.&Mrs. Bennet, Mr. Collins, Lady Catherine de Burgh】comic characters 7. Walter Scott沃尔特?斯科特1771~1832 (历史小说之父”)Father of history novels ① ② ..VI The Victorian Period Common sense and moral propreity, again became the predominant preo ccupation. Critical realists were all concerned about the fate of the common pe ople and everyday events. 1. Charles Dickens查尔斯?狄更斯1812~1870 （批判现实主义小说家）critical realist writer ① ② ③ ④圣诞颂歌 ⑤ ⑥ ⑦ ⑨ ⑩ 2.William Makepeace Thackeray威廉?麦克匹斯?萨克雷1811~1863 ① from ② 3. ?勃朗特1816~1855 plain little orphan, was sent to Lowood, a charity sc hool. There she suffer a lot and 8 years later she left school and beca me a boverness at Thornfield Hall. There she falls in love with the ma ster,Mr. Rochester. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e.g. chari ty institution such as Lowood School It is a successful introduction to the first governess heoine in the English novel, whom represents those middle-class working women stru ggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human bei ng. ② ③ 4. an intruding stranger. 【TheEarnshaw Family】Mr. Earnshaw, his wife, the son Hindley, the d aughter Catherine, Heathcliff 【The Linton Family】Mr.Linton, his wife, son Edgar, daughter Isabella ② 5. George Eliot乔治?艾略特1819~1880λ ① ② ③ ④< Middlemarch>米德尔马契 6.Alfred Tennyson阿尔弗莱德?丁尼生1809~1892 （维多利亚时代最具代表性的伟大诗人） Poet Laureate （桂冠诗人） ① To memorialize his friend ② ③ 7. RobertλBrowning罗伯特?白朗宁1812~1889 ① ② Elizabeth Barrett Browing: ① 8.RobertLouis Stevenson ① 9. ThomasλHardy托马斯?哈代1840~1928 （小说多以农村生活为背景；自然主义小说家。Wessex novels; novels of cha racter and environment） ? not as to duration ② ③ ④< Far FromνThe Madding Crowd>远离尘嚣 ⑤ ⑥< The Return of the Native>还乡 ?Poems Wessex Poems And Other Verses Poems Of The Past And Present The Dynasts列国 VII1900~1950 The 20th Century Playwrights ①Oscar Wilde ②George Bernard Shaw 1. Oscar Wilde奥斯卡?王尔德1856~1900 （The Aesthetic Movement: Art for Art’s Sake） ①4Comedies: ②Novel: ③Fairy Stories: 2. George Bernard Shaw乔治?伯纳?萧1856~1950 (英国杰出的批判现实主义剧作家）critical realistic dramatist ?Plays ①Plays Unpleasant ②Plays Pleasant ③Plays Novelists (Realists) 1. Joseph Concrad of Darkness? The story happened in Congo, the heart of Africa, and the color o f people?s skin in there is black. Most important point about the title is to the evil in humans? heart. 2.What is the symbolism of black and white 【Black / dark- 】death, evil, ignorance, mystery, savagery, uncivilized Middle Ages, when science and knowledge was suppressed, as the Dark Ages. According to Christianity, in the beginning of time all was dark and God created light. According to Heart of Darkness, before the Romans came, England was dark. In th e same way, Africa was considered to be in the “dark stage”. 【White / light】life, goodness, enlightenment, civilized, religion. Yet, in Concrad, the usual pattern is reverse and darkness means truth(The truth within, therefore dark and obscure.), whiteness means falsehood. Thiscontrast tells a political truth about colonialism in the Congo.The contrast also suggests a ps ychological truth about Marlow and the Europeans mind. White also suggests any number of unpleasant moral truths. The trade in ivory is w hite and dirty.Kurtz the white man is totally corrupt https://www.wendangku.net/doc/e012748088.html,ment The book implies that civilizations are created by the laws and codes that encourag e men to achieve higher standards. The law acts as a buffer to prevent men from r everting back to their darker tendencies. Civilization, however, must be learned. London itself, in the book a symbol of enli ghtenment, was once"one of the darker places of the earth" before the Romans forc ed civilization upon the Britons.But civilized society does not get rid of primeval sa vage tendencies which lurk in the background. This savagery is seen in Kurtz. Marlow meets Kurtz and he finds a man that has totally thrown offthe restraint of civilization and has de-evolved into a primitive stat e. 4.Character 【Kurtz】represents what every man will become if left to his own intrinsic desire s without a protective, civilized environment. 【Marlow】represents the civilized soul that has not been drawn back into savagery by a dark, alienatingjungle. 5.Narrative Structure In Heart of Darkness, we have an outside narrator telling us a sto ry he has heard from Marlow. The story Marlow tells centers around K urtz.However, most of what Marlow knows about Kurtz, he has learned from others.They have good reason for not being truthful to Marlow. Therefore Marlow has to piece together much of Kurtz?s story. 2. William Somerset Maugham 3. Edward Morgan Foster (E.M.Foster) Modernists ? 3 Novelists ①James Joyce ②David Herbert Lawrence ③Virgirnia Woolf 1. 【Mrs. Morel】, daughter of a middle-class family, is "a woman of cha racter and refinement", a strong-willed, intelligent and ambitious woman who is fascinated by a warm, vigorous and sensuous coal miner, Walt er Morel, and married beneath her own class.Then, she was desponded at her husband and put her love to her sons. She hopes that they will become outstanding 【Paul Morel】depends heavily on his mother?s love and help to make sense of the world around him. He struggle to free from his mother?s i nfluence, but he failed. After his mother has died and he is left alone, in despair. Theme: Lawrence was one of the first novelists to introduce themes of ps ychology into his works. He believed that the healthy way of the indivi dual?s psychological development lay in the primacy of the life implulse, or in another term, the sexual impulse.huaman sexuality was, to Lawre nce, a symbol of life force.by presenting the psychological experience o f indivudual human life and of human relationships, Lawrence has open ed up a wide new territory to the novel Oedipus Complex is a thematic feature of D. H. Lawrence?s Sons and Lovers ② ③ ④ 2. JamesλJoyce詹姆斯?乔伊斯1882~1941 （爱尔兰小说家，意识流小说的代表人物）stream-of-consciousness 3.Virginia Woolf弗吉尼娅?沃尔芙1882~1941 （意识流小说的代表人物）stream-of-consciousness ①Novels ? 2 Poets ①W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats ) ②T.S. Eliot ( Thomas Sterns Eliot ) 1.William ButlerλYeats威廉?勃特勒?叶茨1865~1939 （爱尔兰诗人，剧作家；The Irish nationalistmovement 爱尔兰独立运动；The Irish Literary Revival 爱尔兰文艺复兴；The Irish Literary Theater, or the Ab bey Theater 爱尔兰民族剧团） ?collections ① ② ?Poems 2. Thomas Sterns Eliot（诗人，剧作家，批评家） ?Poems ① ② ③ ?Plays ① 英国文学史资料British Writers and Works I. Old English Literature & The Late Medieval Ages .. ;.. 一．中古英语时期 Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and the most important specimen (范例、典范)of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language. The romance is a popular literary form in the medieval period（中世纪）. It uses verse or prose to sing knightly a dventures or other heroic deeds. Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales（《坎特伯雷故事集》）,was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature. Chaucer is considered as the father of English poetry and the founder of English realism. 二．文艺复兴Renaissance Renaissance r efers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It marks a transition(过渡) from the medieval to the modern world. It started in Italy with the flowering of painting, sculpture（雕塑）and literature, and then spread to the rest of Europe. Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. This was England’s Golden Age in literature. Queen Elizabeth r eigned over the country in this period. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance i s the Elizabethan drama. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance E ngland are Christopher Marlowe and W illiam Shakespeare. The greatest of the pioneers of English drama was Christopher Marlowe. Francis Bacon was the best known essayist of this period. “Of Studies” is the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays. Thomas More ——Utopia Edmund Spenser——The Faerie Queene 相关练习 1. Which is the oldest poem in the English language? A. Utopia B. Faerie Queene C. Beowulf D. Hamlet 2. _____ is the father of English poetry. A. Edmund Spenser B. William Shakespeare C. Francis Bacon D. Geoffrey Chaucer 3. ____ is not a playwright during the Renaissance period on England. A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer C. Christopher Marlowe D. Ben Johnson 三．莎士比亚William Shakespeare “All t he world 's a stage, a nd all the men and women merely p layers.”——William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the world and the finest poet who has written in the English language. Shakespeare understood people more than any other writers. He could create characters that have 第4章15世纪(1400～1550) 4.1 复习笔记 Ⅰ. Historical background（历史背景） (1) The Hundred Years’ War（百年战争） The Hundred Years’War continued and in 1415 at the Battle of Agincourt King Henry Ⅴ (1413～1422) defeated the French army and claimed himself the heir to the French throne. 百年战争还在持续，在1415年的阿金库尔战役中，亨利5世（1413～1422）战胜了法国军队，并宣布自己是法国的继承者。 (2) The War of the Roses (1455～1485)（玫瑰战争） The War of the Roses, or the Thirty Years’ War, was a series of civil wars fought between the two great families, both of which claimed the right to the English throne. It lasted for thirty years until King Henry Ⅶ defeated Richard Ⅲ(1483～1485) at the Battle of Bosworth and ended the civil war. 玫瑰战争，又叫三十年战争，是发生在两个家族之间的一系列内战，他们都宣称自己有权统治英国。它持续了30年，直到亨利7世在博斯沃思战争（1483～1485）中打败理查德3世，内战宣告结束。 (3) The discovery of America and the new sea routes（美洲大陆和新航海线路的发现） In 1492, a Genoese mariner, Christopher Columbus (ca.1436～1506) who believed that he could reach India by sailing west, landed in America with the Beowulf English literature began with the Anglo-Saxon settlement in England.Beowulf is the national epic of the English people. Beowulf is a folk legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons from their continental homes.Its main stories are evidently folk legends of primative Northern tribes.The most striking feature of Beowulf is the use of alliteration（头韵）.In alliterative verse,certain accented word in a line begin with the same consonant sound,there are generally 4 accents in a line,three of which show alliteration.Other features are the use of metaphors and of understatements(掩饰). ―Ring-giver‖ is used for king, ―sea-wood‖for ship.Ironical humour is often regarded as a permanentcharacteristic of English. Chaucer (About 1340-1400.) His literature career can be divided into three periods:French Period (The Romaunt of the Rose) ,Italian Period,England period.Troilus and Criseyde is his longest complete poem(8000 lines) and his greatest artistic achievement.The Canterbury Tales is Chaucer’s masterpiece and one of the monumental works in English literature.Taking the stand of the rising bourgeoisie,he affi rms men and women’s right to pursue their happiness on earth and opposes the dogma of asceticism(禁欲主义) preached by the church.As a forerunner of humanism,he praises man’s energy,intellect,quick wit and love of life.Chaucer’s language,called Middle English,is vivid and exact.Contribution to English poetry lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types,especially the rhymed couplet(双韵诗体)of 5 accents in iambic(抑扬格) meter(the heroic couplet)to English poetry,instead of the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. Marlowe(1564-1593) 英国文学史 Part one: Early and Medieval English Literature Chapter 1 The Making of England 1. The early inhabitants in the island now we call England were Britons, a tribe of Gelts. 2. In 55 B.C., Britain was invaded by Julius Caesar. The Roman occupation lasted for about 400 years. It was also during the Roman role that Christianity was introduced to Britain. And in 410 A.D., all the Roman troops went back to the continent and never returned. 3. The English Conquest At the same time Britain was invaded by swarms of pirates（海盗）. They were three tribes from Northern Europe: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. And by the 7th century these small kingdoms were combined into a United Kingdom called England, or, the land of Angles. And the three dialects spoken by them naturally grew into a single language called Anglo -Saxon, or Old English. 4. The Social Condition of the Anglo -Saxon Therefore, the Anglo -Saxon period witnessed a transition from tribal society to feudalism. 5. Anglo -Saxon Religious Belief and Its Influence The Anglo -Saxons were Christianized in the seventh century. Chapter 2 Beowulf 1. Anglo -Saxon Poetry But there is one long poem of over 3,000 lines. It is Beowulf, the national epic of the English people. Grendel is a monster described in Beowulf. 3. Analysis of Its Content Beowulf is a folk lengend brought to England by Anglo -Saxons from their continental homes. It had been passed from mouth to mouth for hundreds of years before it was written down in the tenth century. 4. Features of Beowulf The most striking feature in its poetical form is the use of alliteration, metaphors and understatements. Chapter 3 Feudal England 1）T he Norman Conquest 2. The Norman Conquest The French -speaking Normans under Duke William came in 1066. After defeating the English at Hastings, William was crowned as King of England. The Norman Conquest marks the establishment of feudalism in England. 英国文学选读 Of Studies P18 1.We are now living in the age of “information explosion”. What lessons can we learn from Bacon’s< of studies> in our access to information? Our planet is developing forward. The fast-moving development of science and technology makes it more convenient for students to get sufficient and effective information by countless ways. That is the external condition for our study, which we can appropriately make full use of. But what we have to keep in mind is that the eternal master of study is no one but ourselves in the process of studying. 2.In what sense does reading make a full man? Reading makes a full man. Histories make men wise, poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Reading histories makes people learn lessons from the ancient time, avoid making the same mistakes and predict the development of things. People who read histories will be wiser than these who just act according to their own preferences without learning from histories. Reading poem s makes people learn the beauty of language, the beautiful classical style of art and live a poetic life. People who read poems will be wittier than these who haven’t feel the beautiful mood and pure life. Reading mathematics makes people focus on the accurate calculation, develop a scientific attitude, and form a pragmatic spirit. People who read mathematics will be more subtle to consider things from all aspects and do things from the drop carefully than these who don’t read. Reading natural philosophy makes people pursue truth, explore the unknown mystery, and practice actively. People who read natural philosophy will be deeper than these who don’t learn the theory of reflecting the truth. Readingmoral makes peopl e learn the way of harmony living, form the principle of ethical behaviors and develop correct outlooks on values. People who read moral will be graver than these who behave without correct principles and can’t deal with different relationships.Reading log ic makes people master the rules of thinking, dealing with different things and exploring objective reality. People who read logic will be more contend to have clear ideas, mater the principles of objective truth than these who don’t act according to rules. Different kinds of reading materials play different roles in making a full man. People should get into different reading fields and train themselves to become a comprehensive talent. Reading will do good to one’s physical health according to some reading materials of physical training. What’s more important, reading promotes the development of logic thinking and morality. People can be called a full man on condition that they have fine quality, delicate self-cultivation and strict morality. Try to read extensively and become a full man . Poems: Hamlet P8 1.Why is sleep so frightening, according to Hamlet, since it can “end” the heartache and the thousand natural shocks”?Nobody can predict what he will dream of after he falls asleep. Death means the end of life, you may go to or unknown world and you can’t comeback,. If he dies, Hamlet 's can't realize his will. Though “sleep” can end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks, it is a state of mind. 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